<font color="#FF3300">Some lectures note files are too large to be posted on this site. Instead you will see a link that takes you to the UCONN dropbox. You must be logged in the UCONN system to access these. The files will be on the server for 14 days. So download them ASAP.</font><br/><br/>

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<font color="#FF3300"> Most course materials will be available on HuskyCT (beginning sometime Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014).</font><br/><br/>

Textbook: Willis and McElwain (2002): The evolution of plants. Oxford University Press. Additional readings from the primary literature will be assigned to some lectures through links in the schedule below.

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There is no formal textbook for this course. We will be using newly published books (available as e-books from the Uconn library) as well journal articles.

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<B> This material (textbook and papers) is considered part of the lecture material and must be read for the midterm and final exams.</B>

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<B> The assigned reading material is considered required reading.</B>

==<font color="#FF3300">Announcements</font>==

==<font color="#FF3300">Announcements</font>==

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*<B>Assignment in preparation of final</B>: (NOTE THIS IS A NEW VERSION POSTED WEDNESDAY MORNING){{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/greenplants/restricted/Finalassignment.docx}} Finalassignment.docx

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*<B>Final study guide: part 1 </B>. Here you'll find a set of questions you should consider answering in preparation of the final exam (these address the comprehensive part of the final and the lecture material presented by Dr. Goffinet: {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/greenplants/restricted/finalstudyguide2012.doc}} finalstudyguide2012.doc

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*<B><font color="#FF3300">The FINAL</font></B> is scheduled for May 3 at 10.30AM.

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* Watch This: [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/wuis-mhc020410.php Moss helps chart the conquest of land by plants]<br/>

* Watch This: [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/wuis-mhc020410.php Moss helps chart the conquest of land by plants]<br/>

* Learn more about the Rhynie Chert at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/rhynie/intro.htm</br>

* Learn more about the Rhynie Chert at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/rhynie/intro.htm</br>

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==Schedule==

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Notes: downloads require password; best viewed in Adobe Reader.

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Note: this is a tentative schedule. See the HuskyCT site for the latest.

|T 1/31/12|| {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/greenplants/restricted/5Jan31SM.pdf}} Succeeding on land: “earliest” embryophytes <br/>You can also download the large pdf from here [https://dropbox.uconn.edu/dropbox?n=5Jan31FULL.pdf&p=WBcRlrYHRxMLbSv5U]|| {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/greenplants/restricted/BryophytesV%26G.pdf}} Notes on bryophytes ||Goffinet

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|T 2/4/14 || Partners in the colonization of land, II || || Lewis

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|Th 2/2/12|| Conquering land: early Polysporangiophytes <br/> You can download the pdf from here [https://dropbox.uconn.edu/dropbox?n=6FEb02.pdf&p=WkkXiCSFSKqja9s1v] or get a downsized version {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/greenplants/restricted/6FEb02SM.pdf}} here|| W&E Ch. 3: end of chapter ||Goffinet

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|Th 2/6/14 || Challenges to the transition to land || || Lewis

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|T 2/7/12||Origin of vascular plants and biogeography of early land plants <br/> You can download the notes here [https://dropbox.uconn.edu/dropbox?n=7Feb07.pdf&p=WK6KjmRxXwqd6N2Xd]|| W&E remainder of Ch. 3: 51-67, 77-80<br/> <b>Assignment 2 Due (at start of class)</b> ||Goffinet

|Th 3/1/12|| The Developmental tool kit of land plants <br/> You can download the lecture notes here [https://dropbox.uconn.edu/dropbox?n=14March1.pdf&p=WrDqm8mhjbtZ2auFx]|| <B>Assignment 3a due (at start of class) </B> <br/> See {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/greenplants/restricted/Bowmanetal.pdf}} Bowmanetal.pdf for a short review of comparative genomics of land plants ||Goffinet

|Th 4/26/12|| Presentations by EEB 5220 Students [https://dropbox.uconn.edu/dropbox?n=26April26RACHELClass.pdf&p=WxYf5JZdeS1q0946x] [https://dropbox.uconn.edu/dropbox?n=26April26LILYClass.pdf&p=WmO1J0sCvj88tiWvI], Final exam hints || <font color="#FF3300">CHECK Announcements above for link to the study guide part 1 and new version of final assignment</font> ||

Where are our offices? BioPharmacy building, N end of building touching TLS, around the corner from elevator (Dr. Lewis is on the 2nd floor and Dr. Goffinet on the 3rd). If you come from TLS and go up the stairs, enter floor and take hallway on your left.

Syllabus

See the HuskyCT site for these.

Textbook and readings

There is no formal textbook for this course. We will be using newly published books (available as e-books from the Uconn library) as well journal articles.
The assigned reading material is considered required reading.

Links

"Whitish smoke in the movie are small droplets containing smreps (deliberate misspelling of word for male gametes).
The smreps in the droplets are still un-motile. When touch the
water, they begin to swim. In our experiments, misting with water is
trigger of the explosion. If antheridia were mature, the explosion
begin within few minutes. The event continued about for 10 min.
Intense light for video recording also seems to accelerate the
phenomenon. Each antheridia is deeply sunk in a cavity of
antheridiophore and there is a very small pore on the top of each
cavity. Swollen cells of surrounding tissue might cause the pressure
force. Cavers (1903) and Muggoch & Walton (1942) also discussed about the mechanism, but, I think no one examined about the detail mechanism of the phenomenon.
In Hiroshima, the season of mreps dispersal is Spring (April to May).
In our field observation, we detected many airborne smreps in the
sunny day after rain shower.
I do not have detail data about how many species of liverworts have
airborne mreps. At least, Asian species of Conocephalum (C.
japonicum) do in the same manner." M. Shimamura